Thibault II of Champagne

Thibault II of Champagne (1090-1152) was the Count of Blois from 1107 to 1152 and Count of Champagne from 1125 to 1152, succeeding Count Hugh of Champagne and Count Guillaume of Blois and preceding Count Henri I of Champagne and Count Thibault V of Blois.

Biography
Thibaut (Theobald) was born in 1090 to Count Etienne of Blois and Baroness Adele of Beaumont, and he was from the French Catholic House of Blois. Thibault was the brother of Count Guillaume of Blois, Stephen of Blois, and Count Henri of Winchester; in 1107 he succeeded his mentally-deficient brother Guillaume as count of Blois. In 1125 he gained the county of Champagne, and he ruled over extensive territory in the House of Blois' territories in the Kingdom of France.

On 23 December 1135, Stephen of Blois became King of England after the death of their uncle Henry I of England, and Thibault became one of his vassals. While he may not have had a great opinion of his brother, he certainly liked his brother more than Henri did. He complied with Stephen's orders and raised levies for Stephen's campaigns in northern France in the 1130s and 1140s.